Greedy business owners would rather drive a brand new Cadillac SUV every year and live in a huge overstated house instead of paying their employees a decent wage.

You get what you pay for, pretty simple really. And what these business people don't understand is by hiring good people, and paying good money, your workload decreases, and you end up making more money.

Pay people well and they will VALUE their job and work hard to retain it.

Take Bill Gates... he's a bazillionaire because: He hired damn good people. He paid them damn good money.

my grandmother had a hip replaced and needed a nursing home to recoup. the problem was the nursing home didn't want her to recoup and confined her to bed. they would've made $75 more a day if my granny was bedridden. (this is the nicest nursing home in town -you'd think, by the way). granny got outta there fast.

another thing, why don't relatives ever visit the people in nursing homes? you'd think if the family visited them, the careworkers might take better care of their loved one. is it outta sight, outta mind? could it be our throw-away society?

i'd say the majority of people in nursing homes are neglected by their own families. why should nursing home staff give a rip if the resident's own family doesn't give a rip? the left overs don't have any family, so there needs to be some kind of policing of these facilities.

well the main problem is usually staffing. They often have a RN/ADN and then a bunch of CNAs who are on the floor during any given shift. So as well the numbers are reduced and the owners of these "homes" do what they can to make sure they just meet state guidelines in terms of nursing staff.

Also for every case of abuse/neglect that I have ever heard of there are 4 more going the other way. What I mean by that is the patients abusing the staff. I can recall countless nights of my mom coming home when she worked at any number of rest homes with bruises from being hit with canes, kicked, and you name it. So when I hear grandma might have been bed ridden I am not too sympathetic.

however whether it is dymensia or not, I do tend to believe that families not visiting tends to make these people even more angry. This is another situation where sonny-boy or some other relative has dumped mommy in the nursing home for the remainder of her years. They visit every couple of weeks and that slides to holidays and then that slides to every other holiday and so on. However each time they are in all they do is tell the staff what they are doing wrong. They claim they know whats best for mother and a trained RN/LPN/CNA could not have any idea. I can't blame them in some respects, but at the same time so demand more and better trained staffing from the actual people who hire, not from the staff itself.

Trust me if you know someone who works in a nursing home you will find that: the pay stinks, the benefits are almost non-existant, if you are an RN they want to call you an LPN so they can pay you less, the patients are not always friendly and there are a few that are abusive daily, management only wants to turn a profit often at the expense of patient care, and relatives of the patients are often the biggest thorn in their side if and when they ever do visit.

And just imagine it gets much worse in Rural communities

well penguin, my granny was a sweet old lady and i NEVER saw her abusive to anyone - when she was young and when she got older.

she was confined to be bedridden because the resthome wanted to make more money. her wing was being run by staff hired after they lost their jobs at another resthome when it was shut down on the spot by the state for letting the residents wallow in their own feces and urine.